and if you don’t have any manual actions against your website you get this screen ;

which you may notice that there is no link to submit a reconsideration request, unlike this site which has the most common Manual Action against it, the “Partial matches Some manual actions apply to specific pages, sections, or links”

Notice the Request a Review link, so this opens up the discussion into a few areas, do we think that Google is 100% correct in it’s Manual Actions section of Webmastertools, because if it isn’t then how the hell do you do a reconsideration request ?

Also are we going to see Google starting to share things like :

Personally I feel it’s a step in the right direction, but Google could do so much more like why when I add a robots.txt file blocking potential dupe content you do this :

but you give no clue as to what you have just added to the index, if it’s a good thing or a bad thing, I’m guessing in this case it’s bad

David Naylor

David Naylor, more commonly known as DaveN, started working in the SEO industry in it's infancy, starting with three major corporations releasing their database driven data, creating internal link structures and improving usability.

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2 Comments

Charlie Williams

Absolutely agree on it being a step in the right direction, but so much more could be done, and without giving away any of the colonel’s secret herbs & spices. I think notifications of Panda actions would be hugely welcomed.

One thought; have they removed the ability to submit a re-consideration request due to receiving large amounts of requests for sites that have no manual penalty? I imagine there’s plenty of people submitting requests when they have fallen foul of Panda or Penguin, or have simply had many of their links removed of their ability to help rank. In fact, willing to bet some folks simply do a reconsideration request to see if it is a manual penalty before doing any real digging, process of elimination.

Eric Evans - http://www.tvdeals4u.com

Thank you for this post! I learned something new from this.

-Eric

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